While it is technically possible to open an Excel file in Notepad, this is not a good idea. Excel files are binary files that contain complex formatting and data structures. When you open an Excel ...

If you work with multiple Excel files over the course of a workday, and especially if you use a dual-monitor setup, you might wonder how you can launch each Excel file in its own window so you can ...

If you see the “The file couldn’t open in protected view” error while opening Microsoft Excel, the solutions listed in this post may help you resolve the issue ...

If you notice that your Excel files are opening in Notepad, then read this post to learn how to fix the issue. The default behavior of a document or file is to open in the application with which it ...

Free Editor is advised only if you really need a free editor, or an editor for multiple different formats. In our everyday lives, we use a number of different programs to edit the various file types ...

The cause appears to be the use of non-ASCII characters in file names. Microsoft describes it like so: “Any user may be ...

This month's monster security patch for Office breaks Excel when it tries to open HTML files, and it seems unlikely Microsoft will fix the problem Excel users are reporting an odd bug in the way Excel ...

Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files, or XLS files, can be converted into XLA add-in files, designed to attach to Excel installations and add information or functionality seamlessly to the Excel ...

As spotted by Bleeping Computer, Microsoft has published a new service alert related to Outlook. Labelled as issue EX1189359 and titled "Users may be unable to open Excel files attached to email ...

I'm hearing rumblings about some of our APAC users taking minutes at a time to load excel files over the network from the local file server. This seemed to start about 3 weeks ago, the troubleshooting ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that prevents some users from opening Excel email attachments in the new Outlook client.